He, She and It
Jun. 12th, 2025 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI read Woman On The End of Time by Marge Piercey and found it very interesting, but felt it was more a treatise on the inequalities of society than a story.
He, She and It suffered from similar issues for me.
It's set in 2059, in a world where society has collapsed and several giant corporations have emerged to run and control everything.
The start of the actual story, where protagonist Shira loses custody of her two-year-old son and her ex-husband then takes him off-planet, was relatable and affecting, but didn't seem connected to the futuristic setting at all.
And around that was a huge amount of history, philosophy, world-building, politics, and heavy descriptive detail, which had some clever and fascinating aspects, but was very dense and took up about 75% of the narrative in the first few tens of pages.
When I found myself not wanting to read it, even in a doctor's waiting room when I had nothing else to do, I decided it was time to give up on it unfortunately.
He, She and It suffered from similar issues for me.
It's set in 2059, in a world where society has collapsed and several giant corporations have emerged to run and control everything.
The start of the actual story, where protagonist Shira loses custody of her two-year-old son and her ex-husband then takes him off-planet, was relatable and affecting, but didn't seem connected to the futuristic setting at all.
And around that was a huge amount of history, philosophy, world-building, politics, and heavy descriptive detail, which had some clever and fascinating aspects, but was very dense and took up about 75% of the narrative in the first few tens of pages.
When I found myself not wanting to read it, even in a doctor's waiting room when I had nothing else to do, I decided it was time to give up on it unfortunately.
